If you love horses, please read Time of White Horses. If you want to understand what is happening in Palestine today, please read this novel about the 1936-39 uprising against the British. If you love beautiful literature, that too is reason enough to read the book.
Author Archives: Sarah Pacifica Zee
Settler Fantasies and Fences Part IV: Mongolia (a photo essay with Michael)
A photoessay about Mongolia, a country with no fences.
Settler Fantasies and Fences Part 3: Hunting
In a juniper and pinon forest in the South of New Mexico, I killed my first elk. There are no ways to describe it, except through poetry. This is the poem I wrote afterwards. Only a forest as sparse as this could be both broad and quiet enough to hear. Everything quiet except her eyesContinue reading “Settler Fantasies and Fences Part 3: Hunting”
Settler Fantasies and Fences II: Elk and the Caldera
Driving through the Valles Caldera at night, elk appear in an instant at the side of the road. They pivot like darts in the weak and impossibly narrow tunnel of my headlights, returning to the blackness. Great 500-pound ghosts, they float over roadside fences on plodding ungulate wings and crazy steampunk joint mechanisms. Grey-blue-brown inContinue reading “Settler Fantasies and Fences II: Elk and the Caldera”
Settler Fantasies and Fences Part I: “The West”
She used to work in a diner Never saw a woman look finer I used to order just to watch her float across the floor She grew up in a small town Never put her roots down Daddy always kept movin’, so she did too. Somewhere on a desert highway She rides a Harley-Davidson HerContinue reading “Settler Fantasies and Fences Part I: “The West””
Mangkhut and Maria
Mangkhut and Maria It was different this time. The wind was low like it was crawling Robert Tumaneg said in Luzon to a newspaper reporter. It shook the earth like an earthquake. Imagine wind, come to rob you of things fresh and powerful, like the metallic tang of a loved one after an adrenaline shot. Continue reading “Mangkhut and Maria”
Racism, white people, and history
Heather McGhee’s The Sum of Us: What racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together, published this year by One World (a Random House imprint) is a book to be reckoned with. This is a critical review
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Cat and Dog
A Settler Pandemic Poem Cat thinks a lot walks, each leg a separate stalking plan fat lizard-mouthed sits down takes in the situation on allergy-down silk stockings. So tiny and so huge. Is he bored because it is all so banal and he misses the world of the spirits? What platform does Cat use toContinue reading “Cat and Dog”
Decarceration and Repression in New Mexico
Within days of George Floyd’s killing, the state of New Mexico stepped into full repression mode against Black Lives Matter and decarceration activists, arresting myself and a leading Movement for Black Lives/Cop Watch activist Clifton White. I was booked into a private prison with confirmed Covid-19 cases for over 24 hours as a punishment for protesting prison conditions; he languished behind bars for five months because of the draconian parole system.